[-] jaschop@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago

I just got hit by a memory from what must have been 2021, when I was working for a uni-attached startup center. I was lounging in our event space, when my colleague hit me with a question from left field: Would there be a benefit to cooling servers in space, since space is cold?

Little did he know that I was ready to unload my knowledge absorbed from the Expanse series, which I was reading on repeat to cope with my depressing job. So I infodumped on him about how being in space is like being in a thermos and about the Peltier effect being used in spacecraft radiators. He didn't say much in response, and I wasn't too stoked about my social skills in that moment.

Now I wonder if I saved him from a really embarassing decision. He was an ex-Amazon project manager who was non-committally looking for a PhD topic or maybe a startup. He quit a few months later and went into consulting I think.

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

Sehr gutes Memenformat

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

Ja, ich glaube ich genehmige es.

Es gibt so eine gewisse Nische absolut sinnfreier Absurdität, die man (meist unabsichtlich) mit generativer KI treffen kann, der ich einen gewissen artistischen Wert zugestehe.

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah, ich konversiere mit einem Bogen Benutzer.

Ich schieb vorneweg, dass ich den Ansatz alles erstmal aus den elementarsten Teilen selber zu bauen für lobenswert und instruktiv halte. Ich hatte auch mal so ne Phase, wo ich alle IDEs weggeschmissen hab und versucht habe alles mit absoluten Basics zu machen. Hat mich enorm weitergebracht und ich mache einen Großteil meiner Arbeit immer noch so.

Aber...

ich benutze durchaus Endgeräte, an denen ein Terminal nicht der bequemste Modus der Interaktion ist und ich bin so dekadent geworden dass ich zumindest ein bisschen von den letzten 40 Jahren GUI-Entwickling profitieren möchte. Das lässt 2 Optionen für ein verteiltes Notizen-System:

  1. Eine multi-Plattform App mit Sync via WebDAV/git/etc.
  2. Eine Web-Applikation

Da ich eine Domain schon rumliegen habe und ich schnell irritiert werde von wackeligem Sync ist es Nr. 2 geworden.

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago

Ne, erstmal gings mir nur um synchronisierte Notizen. Habs jetzt mit Silberkugel gelöst.

Aber für Dateien will ich mir perspektivisch ne Kopiererparty aufsetzen.

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

On 2 occasions I piled into too small of a car with some school/uni friends for a 12 hour road trip to a campground on the mediterannian sea. Once in Apulia, once on the Costa Brava near Barcelona. Planning was minimal & we were all a bit desperate and drank too much. Still the greatest I ever remember feeling on vacation.

We made a day-trip to Barcelona of course. After we got our time-slotted tickets for the Sagrada Familia we had some time to kill, so wandered into a tapas place a block away. We were a large enough group to order the Paella and it was amazing.

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

Ich hab Ewigkeiten nach einem selbstgehostetem Notizenserver gesucht, ohne den ganzen Scheiß. Es ist eine wahre Landplage.

OpenSlopware ist eine Hilfe, aber ich hab auch schon wieder 5 Projekte gefunden die auf die Liste gehören.

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wir😏iel (awful.systems)
[-] jaschop@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

The website looks too slick and the solution (though fucking around with fonts is fun) is overcomplicated.

Maybe some old media orgs or publishers will take this up, to protect their valuable IP while still having a slick web appearance.

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

Haste in harten Zahlen erstmal Recht, aber es gibt einen gewissen Klassenunterschied finde ich.

Azubis malochen für schlechtes Geld damit sie später für ordentliches Geld malochen können. Praktikanten farmen Connections und Lebenslaufeinträge für ihr nächstes Karrieresprungbrett.

In Branchen wo du faktisch schlecht/un-bezahlte Praktika machen musst um reinzukommen, sieht es natürlich anders aus.

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago

Ist es eigentlich alte Neuigkeiten, dass Tesseract brach liegt und sämtlicher Code auf GitKnoten privat gestellt wurde?

https://lemmyapps.com/Tesseract

Würde ja ein "Mission Abgeschlossen" Maimai machen, aber bin beschäftigt heute.

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

Hmmm, es gibt kein !laschet_iel@feddit.org. ich schätze der Pfosten darf dann bleiben.

[-] jaschop@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

You're argument seems like Suresh's to me, in that making working software is just laughably easy for a competent engineer.

This begs the question why noone is exploiting this market gap. But there's a couple explanations...

It can be a coordination problem, in that there are just barely any competent software organisations with enough engineers. The problem can also lie in how software is bought, since customers seem completely unable to determine the competence of vendors. Perceptions on what kind of software is a safe, respectable choice may even be anti-helpful in this regard.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by jaschop@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

Dear god. Why are note-taking projects such a magnet for slop bros?

I'm on a bit of a quest to build up some self-hosted services for me and friends & family, partially because Ad- & AI-infested big tech slop was making me sick and also to become a better sysadmin. General requirement was notes available anywhere and decent editing on mobile.

I was about to rip my hair out, when every session for weeks digging into options ended in frustration. Every project with somewhat decent features had some meh aspects and became worse the longer I looked. And there are so many of them. You can drown your self in "Best FOSS Note-taking App in $(date +%Y)" listicles. Here's a list of over a hundred projects.

I suspect it's a bit of the shopping list problem. It's such a basic idea, that every ambitious clueless dev has it once while picking a hobby project. But note-taking also definitely has a place in toxic self-optimization / hustle culture. Some of the more developed project strike me as that.

I won't mention every basic note-talking project with a CLAUDE.md that I stumbled on, but here's some of the more disappointing lowlights:

  • Joplin main developer was one-shot. Added agent instructions to the repo this year and some provisions for his personal vibecoding rig to .gitignore. Also it's not a bug if the AI chat button is visible even if AI features are disabled, because how would people find out about the AI features then?
  • Notesnook seems okay-ish, but they're part of the mall ninja club. Business partnership with Kagi & Tuta.
  • Standard Notes was the least suspect to me. Later found out they Copilot-Review all of their PRs. (same as Notesnook btw)
  • I even considered going with a self-hosted binary of Obsidian. They don't get instant-disqualified by promoting themselves as AI-anything. And if you don't have a project you can trust, you might as well throw yourself at the most established option and pray.

I was running out of places to look for alternatives, when I remembered Open Slopware. You can guess how shocked I was, when note-software made up one of the biggest sublists in there. Through the shortlist of recommendations I ended up looking at Flatnotes. That project might be just enough notes for me.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/33039120

ich🎣🫷iel

Sind die so tief in ihren ausgedachten Phishing Tests verbuddelt, dass sie die echten nicht erkennen oO

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Leftist streamer Vaush applies his unifying "everything I don't understand is Epstein shit" thesis to the fediverse.

Article from the clip: https://medevel.com/why-the-fediverse-isnt-mainstream-and-why-it-might-be-the-future-of-safe-private-social-media/

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Tunnel... (awful.systems)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jaschop@awful.systems to c/drehscheibe@feddit.org

Hier sehen Sie, inmitten diversen Tinnefs am Bahnhof München Laim, einen Güterzug voller Tunnelsegmente (vermutlich) für die 2. Münchner Stammstrecke, gezogen von einer ÖBB Lok.

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IT'S ABOUT DRIVE! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by jaschop@awful.systems to c/the_pack@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/41886055

I drive rule

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Was looking for a terminal that can render LazyVim. It's looking like Alacritty (definitely not ghostty).

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by jaschop@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

Too early to see if it's viable. I'm doing my part in the GitHub trenches.

EDIT: They pinned my no-AI policy issue. I think they're pure of heart, lads.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by jaschop@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

...which is of course, because they should be prompting harder. Unusually savage heise remarks:

Whether the hallucination-prone generative AI itself is even suitable for unleashing the hoped-for productivity revolution does not seem to be a question for the consultants.

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